Chiyome Mochizuki

Chiyome Mochizuki was a Takeda noblewoman who created an all-female group of ninja.

Biography
Chiyome Mochizuki was wife of Nobumasa Mochizuki, a Takeda retainer who was lord of Mochizuki Castle in Shinano Province of central Japan. Her husband's uncle Shingen Takeda told her to create a group of kunoichi ninja to fight for the Takeda clan, and she made an all-female group of ninja. She also became a member of the Templar Order.

200-300 girls, formerly orphans, prostitutes, or victims of the Sengoku Jidai era, served Mochizuki. In 1573 her Templar group failed to prevent Assassin Order affiliates Tadakatsu Honda and Hanzo Hattori from entering Shingen's camp and assassinating him, and the Templars were weakened by inter-clan feuds.